He's gonna make a fortune selling that plot to Hollywood
November 21, 2017, 10:12 AM
dusty3030
Would make for a hell of a sporting clays game. Killer birds, better not miss.
November 21, 2017, 10:19 AM
parabellum
Forgive me, but there is simply no way for me to take seriously anything that anyone from Berkeley says.
November 21, 2017, 10:28 AM
ensigmatic
quote:
Originally posted by dusty3030: Would make for a hell of a sporting clays game. Killer birds, better not miss.
That was my first thought
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November 21, 2017, 10:30 AM
Marue
That is jacked the F up.
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November 21, 2017, 10:32 AM
maladat
Berkeley has one of the top 3 or 4 computer science programs in the world, but it's also probably in the top 3 or 4 most left-leaning universities in the world.
Sometimes that results in some really stupid shit coming out of the people there.
November 21, 2017, 10:36 AM
Krazeehorse
Is that Terri Garr at 3:50 on the "news cast"? Anyone want to partner up in a tactical tennis racket business?
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November 21, 2017, 10:38 AM
flesheatingvirus
Neat concept, but I laughed out loud when the 3g shaped charge went off and sounded like a cap gun.
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November 21, 2017, 10:50 AM
RAMIUS
Still not as dangerous as Berkeley's dreaded SJW bots.
November 21, 2017, 10:58 AM
BBMW
Do you doubt that, if not technically possible already, it will be so within a fairly short period (say 5 years)?
quote:
Originally posted by maladat: Berkeley has one of the top 3 or 4 computer science programs in the world, but it's also probably in the top 3 or 4 most left-leaning universities in the world.
Sometimes that results in some really stupid shit coming out of the people there.
November 21, 2017, 11:05 AM
arabiancowboy
quote:
Originally posted by Sigmanic: I'm not certain of the viability of this video/technology, but if it is accurate it is simultaneously fascinating and spooky!
Swarming drones and autonomous attack systems, along with AI, are viable.
I'm finishing a staff tour doing capability development for future military solutions. Have gotten to see a lot of this stuff in demo. Industry of course assumes there won't be growing pains and it'll all work as advertised. That's not the case, but it's certainly true that there are serious efforts to utilize complex technology in more lethal ways.
Western professors advocating enactment of rules to keep the genie in the bottle are doing us a huge disservice. Our adversaries are developing this technology without compunction for moral limits. I fully expect autonomous tracked vehicles with mounted weapons making their own decisions about employing lethal force to be fielded in my lifetime, by our adversaries. Our own squeamish discomfort in developing and using killer robots is not shared by our enemies. Our technological edge is meaningless unless coupled with the will to exploit and use it.
November 21, 2017, 11:30 AM
BBMW
What we need to be doing is developing both the offensive and defensive technology simultaneously. We ARE going to be hit with this stuff. We need to have the technology in place to stop it.
quote:
Originally posted by arabiancowboy:
quote:
Originally posted by Sigmanic: I'm not certain of the viability of this video/technology, but if it is accurate it is simultaneously fascinating and spooky!
Swarming drones and autonomous attack systems, along with AI, are viable.
I'm finishing a staff tour doing capability development for future military solutions. Have gotten to see a lot of this stuff in demo. Industry of course assumes there won't be growing pains and it'll all work as advertised. That's not the case, but it's certainly true that there are serious efforts to utilize complex technology in more lethal ways.
Western professors advocating enactment of rules to keep the genie in the bottle are doing us a huge disservice. Our adversaries are developing this technology without compunction for moral limits. I fully expect autonomous tracked vehicles with mounted weapons making their own decisions about employing lethal force to be fielded in my lifetime, by our adversaries. Our own squeamish discomfort in developing and using killer robots is not shared by our enemies. Our technological edge is meaningless unless coupled with the will to exploit and use it.
November 21, 2017, 12:05 PM
arabiancowboy
quote:
Originally posted by BBMW: What we need to be doing is developing both the offensive and defensive technology simultaneously. We ARE going to be hit with this stuff. We need to have the technology in place to stop it.
We're trying. Defensive is very difficult to do without fragging out your own spectrum. ISIS conducted 400 COTS UAV missions in a single month during the end of the Mosul offensive. Mostly real-time ISR, but over 100 of those missions were kinetic drops of modified hand grenades. A LOT of effort was spent trying to stop that, but its really hard. If that's the capability of a non-state group who was logistically isolated and losing..... imagine the capability of a fully resourced state with years of planning and their own universities churning out students to innovate this stuff. All while our pussy education system wrings its hands at the potential.
November 21, 2017, 12:08 PM
thunderson
"Mr President...We must not allow....a slaugterbot gap!"
I have the heart of a lion.......and a lifetime ban from the Toronto Zoo.- Unknown
November 21, 2017, 12:44 PM
Sig2340
As BBMW notes this is a reality.
ISIS was using explosive-laden semi-autonomous aerial vehicles (SAAV) to attack Iraqi and Syrian forces in Aleppo and Mosul, and there is video of them using them to do BDA for suicide bombers in Afghanistan.
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And this is what is fully in the public domain.
I just bought a micro quad for around $20 that has a host of autonomous functions. Hacking them to do other things isn't that far a stretch
Other interesting thing is a micro SAAV or a micro fully autonomous aerial vehicle is that 3 grams of Semtex isn't very much, but would generate enough energy to seriously injure a human and send plastic shards deep into the victim. Those shards would be hard to detect using X-ray devices, making treating the victim that much harder. Consider that a modern detonator (e.g., "blasting cap") only holds 0.40-0.45 grams of PETN and can blow your fingers off.
Nice is overrated
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November 21, 2017, 12:56 PM
mbinky
Time to bring back the Auto 5's for aerial gunnery.
November 21, 2017, 12:57 PM
Cookster
OMG!
According to the 'news', the slaughterbots attacked only one side of the aisle after breeching the Capital!
I wonder which side got their brains scrambled from the shaped charges?! __________
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November 21, 2017, 01:03 PM
Ackks
OK, close your window and watch them crash into it like birds. Problem solved
November 21, 2017, 01:08 PM
46and2
Virtually nothing good will come from this, in the end.
